Like everyone else on the road Saturday, I was confronted with the first real winter driving test of the season.

Yes, that was me at about 10 a.m. on I-690 eastbound in the silver minivan, realizing that I probably had made a mistake by failing to buy new tires last month.

I was No. 10 or so in a line of cars, all moving along at about 35, 40.

We passed a four-wheel drive pickup that had spun into a ditch, and a little farther on we passed a car parked on the right shoulder with its flashers on.

Some knucklehead in an SUV zipped by everyone in the slush-covered passing lane, throwing veils of goo and sand into the air and onto our windshields. (I should have refilled the washer fluid, too.)

I gritted my teeth and drove onward.

Just wondering ...
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